iWeb Communities: Blog

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published daily at 8.00am EST. For Jan 22nd, here are the highlights:

• Apple reports best quaterly revenues and earnings in the company’s history, well beyond analysts’ expectations
• A list of Canadian ISPs filtering customer traffic, and how they do it. 
• Google broke Feedburner, a well-written post which sums up the problems plaguing the service.
• Chief Software Architect JD Conley writes: Don’t hire a programmer if they don’t code for fun. 
• FDR was the radio president of the US, JFK the television president, and Obama is now hailed as the Internet president. Barack Obama has created a new title at the new house, CTO of America, with a focus on new technologies. One of their first visible work is the new whitehouse.gov website, which is a radical change from the previous government.
• Search Engine Marketing: SEOMoz asks if the little things make a difference
• jsMemcached.js is a jaxer client for memcached. Usage is very simple (one line to set a key, one line to get back a key)